The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[Xann]

5 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I’d prefer to see something linking Gove ( or predecessors ) directly to this policy and I’d be inclined to agree with your description 

This all went on behind the government's back, when they assigned a property developer to be the chair of Natural England? I'd laugh if it wasn't so tragic.

5 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Tony Juniper is taking over as head of this shortly isn’t he , presumably the permits will end at this point ?

One would f***ing hope so.

[bickster]

I think the tweet says it all really

 

[Davkaus]

Remember when this odious bunch of words removed were "the party of small government", and hugely critical of Labour's "nanny state"?

Now they want us to have to go to the newsagent to get a wanking permit. What the **** has happened to this country. Remember when nobody wanted an ID card?

I'm going to buy a dozen porn passes and scatter them in the woods, like the good old days.

Edited March 18, 2019 by Davkaus

[chrisp65]

This is the first I've heard of wanking permits?

Will there be some form of test?

[ml1dch]

4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

This is the first I've heard of wanking permits?

Will there be some form of test?

There definitely needs to be some sort of public forum with lots of people to argue the pros and cons of such an idea.

The problem will be coming with a suitable name for such a large discussion.

[Davkaus]

You can either sign up online at a filth-merchant of your choice, using a credit/debit card to verify your ID and have you credentials stored in the governments list of approved recipients of pornography (what could go wrong?), or you can go to your local newsagent, show them your passport, and pay £4.99 for a single device porn pass. Or, for the bargain price of £8.99, you can get a pass to watch adult entertainment on as many devices as you like. That's a government efficiency saving right there, good job Mrs May.

You only have to sign up once, but I'm going to pop in to WH Smiths and let them know every time I'm going to crack one out, just in case.

[chrisp65]

Just now, ml1dch said:

There definitely needs to be some sort of public forum with lots of people to argue the pros and cons of such an idea.

The problem will be coming with a suitable name for such a large discussion.

would also require a number of wank moderators

[StefanAVFC]

Interesting plan. Pretending gay people don't exist is definitely more confusing than acknowledging it.

[peterms]

On 18/03/2019 at 20:46, chrisp65 said:

would also require a number of wank moderators

Step away from the keyboard.  Step away from the keyboard.

[bickster]

On 18/03/2019 at 20:46, chrisp65 said:

would also require a number of wank moderators

Brings a whole new element to post on poster

[HanoiVillan]

Can't decide between three different emoji's for that one. 

[snowychap]

 

[snowychap]

Tory MP Christopher Davies admits expenses fraud

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The Conservative MP Christopher Davies has pleaded guilty to two expenses fraud charges. Davies entered the pleas at Westminster magistrates court on Friday.

The first charge was providing false or misleading information for allowances claims contrary to section 10 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009. Davies admitted he made a claim in March 2016 under the MPs’ allowances scheme and provided an invoice that he knew to be false or misleading.

The second charge was attempting to provide false or misleading information for an allowance claim using an invoice that he knew to be false or misleading, in April 2016.

Davies served as a councillor in Powys before he was elected as the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2015 general election, beating the incumbent, Roger Williams, a Liberal Democrat, and securing the seat’s largest majority since 1983.

In January 2018, he was appointed private secretary to the Wales Office. He was charged in February this year.

Before entering politics, Davies worked as a rural auctioneer, an estate agent and managed a mixed veterinary practice in Hay-on-Wye.

 

[bickster]

27 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Tory MP Christopher Davies admits expenses fraud

 

Any chance of it being longer than a year in jail?

[snowychap]

2 minutes ago, bickster said:

Any chance of it being longer than a year in jail?

For expulsion purposes? No idea.

He'll be covered by the recall petition process, though.

[bickster]

2 minutes ago, snowychap said:

For expulsion purposes? No idea.

He'll be covered by the recall petition process, though.

10% of his constituents though, pretty hard in a constituency the size of his with such a sparse population

[snowychap]

Just now, bickster said:

10% of his constituents though, pretty hard in a constituency the size of his with such a sparse population

I think they have 6 weeks to sign and there can be up to 10 signing places (at least that's the case for the ex-Labour MP's one in Peterborough).

On the sentence, this is from The Mirror:

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District judge John Zani said he "does not consider'' the sentencing power of Westminster Magistrates' Court to be sufficient and it will instead be dealt with at crown court. 

The judge said he notes that Mr Davies is a man of good character who has shown "considerable remorse" and how there was no financial gain for actions.

"However, in my view, these are two very serious offences to which you have pleaded guilty," he said.

"The documents you created are troublesome in that they carried a deal of information that you put together which absolutely intended to deceive."

6 months is the maximum that can be handed down in Magistrates' courts, isn't it?

So he thinks it ought to be longer than that.

[bickster]

20 minutes ago, snowychap said:

I think they have 6 weeks to sign and there can be up to 10 signing places (at least that's the case for the ex-Labour MP's one in Peterborough).

On the sentence, this is from The Mirror:

6 months is the maximum that can be handed down in Magistrates' courts, isn't it?

So he thinks it ought to be longer than that.

Just off the top of my Head

Brecon

Hay-on-Wye

Rhaeadr

Talgarth

Builth Wells

LLandrindod Wells

Crickhowell

Sennybridge

Llanwrtyd Wells

LLanandras

I reckon that might just about do it tbh

 

[VILLAMARV]

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

Brecon

Hay-on-Wye

Rhaeadr

Talgarth

Builth Wells

LLandrindod Wells

Crickhowell

Sennybridge

Llanwrtyd Wells

LLanandras

Now there's something you don't see everyday on VT.

Did you know time (and wildly on topic). But did you know that Villa legend George Burrell Ramsay retired to and died in Llandrindod Wells? Well now you do.

As for the Tory guy, we will see. It's a Tory/Liberal marginal. While the Tories are often seen as the party of the farming community, the guy he ousted - Roger Williams (father to Kirsty the Liberal leader in the Senedd) is a farmer and had a lot of support around the Brecon area from which he hails. The labour vote rose at the last election and it probably split the liberal vote letting the tories in. I grew up there after we left the midlands. My parents are still in the area. It is very much the sort of place where people put their own politics to one side and "vote liberal to keep the Tories out". And people do like to complain........

[bickster]

7 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said:

Roger Williams (father to Kirsty the Liberal leader in the Senedd) is a farmer and had a lot of support around the Brecon area from which he hails

His farm is on the corner of the road that connects the Brecon Hay Rd to the Builth Wells Rd (not the shortcut one, the one if you're coming from Abergavenny)

His farm is one huge billboard come election time